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03-13-2011, 11:42 AM

#51

joycet

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Join Date: Jan 2011

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sounds like a plan to me...great idea to save a bit of each fabric...just wished I was going to your sale!!! VBG

03-13-2011, 11:46 AM

#52

IrishNY

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Join Date: Feb 2010

Location: was Upstate NY, now NC & TN

Posts: 2,328

If you decide to sell through a garage sale, please let us know here. Some of us might take a road trip to help you de-stash. (Aren't we wonderful?) ;) ;)

03-13-2011, 11:48 AM

#53

roseOfsharon

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Join Date: Oct 2009

Location: Maryland

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Sounds right to me! It will be hard giving up your precious fabric as is, so keeping some of each will make it easier! :)

03-13-2011, 12:04 PM

#54

karate lady

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Join Date: May 2010

Location: washington

Posts: 1,424

Quote:

Originally Posted by katiescraftshop

I see no harm in keeping 1/2 yard of the ones you really like. When is the yard sale??? lol!

better yet......WHERE is the yard sale. lol..

03-13-2011, 12:11 PM

#55

GramaLaura

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Join Date: Oct 2010

Location: Georgetown TX

Posts: 4,375

Quote:

Originally Posted by BeeNana

I would sell the fabric that you really know in your heart that you'll never use. Save the ones that make your heart sing. If you have bolts then you could always cut a yard off.

sounds like a good plan :-D

03-13-2011, 02:09 PM

#56

vivoaks

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Location: Beaver PA USA

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I'm thinking I'd just keep it. Your daughter can always have a fabric sale after you're gone. Who knows, you may live to be 100, and you don't want to run out of quilt fabric if you can still sew! Let her worry about selling it! :-)

03-13-2011, 02:48 PM

#57

moreland

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Join Date: Apr 2007

Location: Manhattan, Kansas

Posts: 2,160

Quote:

Originally Posted by trolleystation

My daughter and I are having a fabric garage sale early this summer. I am 75 years old and I have way too much fabric to ever make into quilts in my lifetime. I love what fabric I do have and would like to keep a bit of each. Do you think it would be wise for me to keep two fat quarters (one half yard) of each so that I could make smaller items and scrappy quilts? I value everyone's opinion on this board. Everyone has a different view and I have come to respect all of you. Thanks for your help in the past. Happy Daylight Saving Day!!!

If you have local quilting guilds, be sure to let them know about your sale!

03-13-2011, 04:12 PM

#58

JCL in FL

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Join Date: Dec 2007

Location: Daytona Beach Shores, FL

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You may want to donate some of it to a local guild that makes quilts for those in need or soldiers or some other good cause. It may it easier to let go.

03-13-2011, 05:14 PM

#59

Faiwee

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Join Date: Sep 2010

Location: Ridgeway, SC

Posts: 104

I would put together enough fabric to make 2 or 3 quilts using up my favorite fabrics. I would then keep 1 to 1/2 yards of the fabrics I really liked.

03-13-2011, 05:15 PM

#60

naperson

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Join Date: Aug 2010

Posts: 7

I am sorting out my fabric also. I have gone though my patterns and have made up packets with a pattern and the fabric to make it. I now have my projects organized with the pattern and fabric ready to go. My problem has always been to buy fabic with no purpose in mind and therefore the stash that has gotten out of control.I would suggest that you keep the fabric your eally like but put it with a pattern so you remember why you have kept it.